Guild Wars 2

… There really should be more ways to resist conditions, instead of having to rely on cleansing/reducing them: It doesn’t matter if you reduce DoT times from 60 seconds to 25 if they kill in 16.

Then again… can’t boons be used to counter conditions, as well? Then again, Regen is probably too weak and hard to come by compared to all the direct-damage conditions available (How many are there?)

Ideally, I hope they can give diminishing returns for trying either pure-direct damage and definitely more diminishing returns on pure condition builds, so that whether you go for DD, Condi, or a balance of the two all provide viable options in combat.

Norn have a more ‘stable’ gait, and by extension somewhat less range of motion, but can get to any point in that range of motion nearly immediately. Charr lack the equillibrium and stability due to their digitigrade stance, tails, and arched/hunched spine that don’t allow their hips, shoulders, knees,base of the skull, and ankles to remain aligned vertically with the center of gravity, and remain aligned as they move in any direction. Charr would be better at maneuvering around a battlefield because of their dynamic posture and long arms, but they lack the agility to move within their own space as well.

It’s less “Puma Vs. Ape” and more “An Oversized and Clawed King Kong vs. A Very Fast Gipsy Danger”, in terms of how a battle likely goes down.

Y’know… there’s more to the game than just PvP. So what if the trait happens to be only useful for PvE? Don’t take away my PvE salvation button just because it doesn’t appeal to players of an adjacent game.

I wonder how much of the “People don’t play Charr, so we won’t bother fixing their armor” is a positive-feedback loop and self-sustaining problem.

Seriously – Charr are one of the coolest and most unique races in the game, yet anyone who tries to play as one with the expectation of being an awesome-looking kitten steampunk hellcat finds themselves sorely disappointed by stretched textures, horrendous clipping, no way to show off the fur we spend a great deal of time getting to look right, and a complete lack of armor diversity for playable characters. Then we get angry, complain to Anet about the problem, get rebuffed, and then find ourselves either rolling up a race that isn’t an aesthetic atrocity, or outright quitting the game entirely because it failed to deliver a satisfactory experience for people who want to play Charr.

… there is a LOT of incivility in this thread. Where’s the report feature?

Honestly… it depends on the stakes of the fight. A casual bar brawl can go either way, because there isn’t as much reputation on the line. However, if it’s a contest or Glorious Battle, the advantage swings overwhelmingly to the Norn, because in those situations, the Norn will demonstrate greater ferocity, tenacity, and aggression than the Charr would – sure, the latter may LOOK like a wild animal, but the Norn is on a whole different level entirely. The charr finds merely his life on the line. The Norn has not only his life, but also his reputation and legend on the line, which are FAR more valuable.

I keep seeing people say it takes intelligence and agility to fight, because that combination allows landing more blows… except, it doesn’t matter if someone can win a fight in 3 solid blows and it takes 40 to take them down. And even then, greater strength is greater speed. And, the more upright and secured structure of a Norn makes it more agile where it counts in a fight. Norn fight with the agility of Bruce Lee and the strength of Thor. Charr fight more like slinkies on steroids.